Just for this meeting.

Before we begin, I want to remind the public safety finance and strategic support committee members and member of the public to follow our code of conduct at meetings.

This includes commentating on specific agenda item only and addressing the full body.

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This meeting of the public safety, finance, and strategic support committee will now come to order.

Can the clerk office uh please call roll?

Salis Casey Mulcahi.

Vice Chair Kame?

Here.

Chair Duan.

Here.

You have a quorum.

Do we have any public comments?

For which item?

For C1.

Oh no, just uh in the beginning, you normally have any type of we have no public okay.

We got um the consent calendar.

Uh we have the third quarterly financial report for fiscal year 2024 and 25.

Do we have any motion on that?

Move that we accept the consent calendar.

Second.

All right, we've had a motion.

And second, do we have any public comments?

No public comment.

Okay, let's vote.

That motion passes unanimously.

Thank you.

So now on item one, we got the fire department operation annual report.

Uh we'll have the assistant chief James Williams, Deputy Chief Aaron Freiler, and Captain Ryan West with the presentation.

Good afternoon, Chairperson Duan, Committee members, and members of the public.

My name is James Williams, and I serve as the Assistant Fire Chief with the San Jose Fire Department.

I'm joined today by Deputy Chief Aaron Freiler and Captain Ryan West.

We're here today to present the fire department annual operations report with a focus on call volume and emergency response time performance.

I would now hand it over to Captain Ryan West.

Thank you, Chief Williams.

San Jose is the 13th largest city in the United States, home to nearly one million residents across 200 plus square miles.

The San Jose Fire Department is dedicated to protecting life, property, and the environment through prevention preparedness and response.

As a high-volume all hazards agency, San Jose Fire Department provides not only fire suppression and rescue services, but also an advanced life support emergency medical care and specialized responses.

These specialized operations include urban search and rescue, aircraft rescue, firefighting, and hazardous materials incident mitigation.

This report begins with an overview of the department's call volume, then followed by analysis of emergency response times.

Each section includes a review of trends, contributing factors, and updates on the response time work plan.

We also safeguard key regional assets, including the San Jose Maneta International Airport, the SAP Center, PayPal Park, San Jose State University, three super regional shopping malls, seven major hospitals, and 108 high-rise buildings.

Over the past five fiscal years, while the city's population decreased by approximately 8%, our total call volume increased by 20%.

Prior to 2019, call volume directly tracked with population growth, but this trend has changed.

Like most fire departments, our highest call volume is in the core of the city, represented here with Battalion 1 in blue, being our centrally located downtown fire stations.

During peak call periods, resources from surrounding battalions are drawn into Battalion 1 to assist with the emergency response.

This variability in population density and service demands impacts the emergency response coverage.

It is important to note that this graph shows the number of incidents only and not the number of resources deployed to mitigate the emergency.

A single incident, as noted here, can have several resources responding.

This single incident can include multiple alarms that can involve well over 10 different companies.

As such, the incident response numbers provided in this report only partially represent the workloads for each battalion.

This is a heat map showing the call volume intensity, ranging from the lowest in blue and the highest call volume in red.

High call volume, which is centralized in the core of San Jose, negatively impacts the department's response time performance.

This is due to high call volume reducing the resources available, thus increasing travel time to reach the incident from the neighboring stations.

This pie chart illustrates the breakdown of approximately 110,000 incidents recorded in fiscal year 2023-24.

Each call type was within 1 to 2% from the prior year's distribution.

Not defined on this chart is the increased demand for local and state mutual aid responses.

Areas south of San Jose include Morgan Hill and Gilroy have had an increased demand for mutual aid support.